Give yourselves some benefit of doubt..

Insane are many humans, sometimes the ones we are very close to. Maybe there’s a reason behind it too, so that we may analyse and try to make them think differently. Anyhow still an anecdote that makes me realize many things at once.

Queries are raised in our minds when we are learning or yearning for something new , something we haven’t thought about before. Such is the case with my young fellow, he asks and sometimes is very much stubborn for his thoughts. I guess we all are, sometimes. Although he has a troubled mind and he makes it more troubled by not opening up. The best thing is he realizes it. He asked me one day, “What are we doing keeping up in the faith anyway? Sure, we should enjoy until these beautiful days are over and then just well see to faith when it comes to that. ” I wasn’t shocked. I kind of knew he’d do that. Change is prone to humans, but faith doesn’t come easy. It has to be worked upon, the connection has to be established between us and God. What made his statement predictable was the fact that he adopted extremely hurriedly and with much of swiftness to faith, he came back down to the way he was before in a much faster pace. I tried to answer and said ,”You really believe that? Look at You just a month before and just now . Like what’s up??” He didn’t really answer but asked another query , “What? At least i did try and i’ll come back to it , i know that. I just want to enjoy for a little bit. ” Our conversation went on and on and at the end i just told him to take things slow when it comes to faith and not to rush through them. Just take one thing at a time if you have to. You can’t be a saint or a sinner overnight, it just isn’t what you thought all along.

What i was thinking afterwards was just an example which was a better way of explaining :During a semester system ,you keep on and in the mid terms you get very low. You realize now you have to work very hard or at least try to move on that much that you at least donot flunk the course. You do realize that right? The first thing that can keep you from flunking is your determined attitude , whether you are determined enough to try and pass? Or is it just going to be your routine. Now, for a person who is determined can only get through. Same is the case with the faith, you can only attain it little by little when you are determined enough. So, when you are determined what then? You try to organize yourself , keeps the distractions away for a while so you can get to focus and study with all that you got, right? ofcourse, you are determined to not to flunk this time so you got to do just that. What’s the next step of leap in faith then? You get yourself organized, you get your thoughts organized, you realize that although i have wronged myself i’ll not be returning to it, i don’t want to flunk in the judgement day, i have to be more strong in my faith. It’s the only way. & You try to move away from distractions that makes you keep flunking.Now, there’s one other thing what even when you get yourself organized even then the distractions find their way to you for instance your sister finds you and teases you and wants to play with you while you have exam tomorrow, you can’t focus now, so you leave the room and find yourselves another place or shove her away somehow. What about faith? Who distracts us? Evil ? Sins? No, it’s the Devil. How he does that is through making the evil and sins attractive for us. He finds his way to us, anway somehow. What we should do? Shove him off, leave the place. But instead what we do we do is what creates the tension ! You see the similarity now? I see it. We let the devil do his work and that’s where we are at his stake. If the sister comes and you keep playing with her , what would happen? You’ll flunk again. If we keep on playing with the distractions , if we don’t remove them because we know the harm they can cause, we’d be responsible for the outcome. Who else would we have to blame at the end of the day then , if not oursleves?Give it a thought.May Allah give us the ability to shove off the devil and to keep trying and praying no matter what for it is the hope in His mercy and forgiveness that keeps us going. Ameen.